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Christopher St. John Sprigg

Born

in The United Kingdom

October 20, 1907

Died

February 12, 1937

Genre

Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

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Christopher St. John Sprigg aka Christopher Caudwell was a British Marxist writer, thinker and poet.

He was born into a Roman Catholic family, resident at 53 Montserrat Road, Putney. He was educated at the Benedictine Ealing Priory School, but left school at the age of 15 after his father, Stanhope Sprigg, lost his job as literary editor of the Daily Express. Caudwell moved with his father to Bradford and began work as a reporter for the Yorkshire Observer. He made his way to Marxism and set about rethinking everything in light of it, from poetry to philosophy to physics, later joining the Communist Party of Great Britain in Poplar, London.

In December 1936 he drove an ambulance to Spain and joined the International Brigades there, training a ...more

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Christopher St. John Sprigg’s books

Average rating: 3.71 · 1,078 ratings · 230 reviews · 17 distinct works • Similar authors

	Death of an Airman (Inspector Bray, #2) 3.66 avg rating — 619 ratings — published 1934 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crime in Kensington (Charles Venables, #1) by Christopher St. John Sprigg, Christopher Caudwell 3.79 avg rating — 234 ratings — published 1933 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Six Queer Things 3.41 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 1937 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fatality in Fleet Street (Charles Venables, #2) 3.71 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1933 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Perfect Alibi (Charles Venables, #3) 4.16 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1934 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Death of a Queen (Charles Venables, #4) 3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Corpse with the Sunburned Face 3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1935 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Christopher St. John Sprigg Collection. Illustrated: The Perfect Alibi, Fatality in Fleet Street, Death of a Queen, Crime in Kensington, Death of an Airman it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Airship: Its Design, History, Operation and Future by Christopher St. John Sprigg, Adam Starchild it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1931 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Uncanny Stories 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Christopher St. John Sprigg

Inspector Bray (2 books)
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Christopher St. John Sprigg,

Peter Wickham (Narrator )

3.70 avg rating — 853 ratings

Charles Venables (4 books)
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Christopher St. John Sprigg

3.82 avg rating — 319 ratings

Quotes by Christopher St. John Sprigg (?)

“It is from the psychological point we must tackle this problem. Once we know the motive, we know the murderer. Once we know the murderer, there will be no difficulty in establishing how the thing was done. The right explanation will grow spontaneously from the character of the man. It will be dictated by his known movements and the means at his disposal at the time.”
“That’s really excellent, Venables! I had never realized before that there was a metaphysics of detection.” “Don’t be misled,” Venables warned him. “In the last resort it’s an art—a flair—and we invent the scientific explanation for our success afterwards. It’s not so different from the savage way of smelling out witches. I have generally found the murderer whiffed of brimstone slightly to my nostrils.”
― Christopher St. John Sprigg, Death of a Queen

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